Any a private house, 20 or more years have passed since its construction, and is in need of major repairs. Repairing a private house with your own hands, in addition to impressive financial investments Construction Materials, involves a lot of labor. How to save and get high-quality repairs we asked the masters.
Where to begin
You need to start by drawing up a detailed plan for the sequence of actions, after completing which you can consider it completed. The more detailed its points are described, the easier it will be to imagine the amount of work, the time required for repairs and the amount of financial costs.
The plan will look different for each individual case.
Work plan
- drawing up a design project;
- calculation necessary materials and tools, budgeting;
- repair of communications (replacement of sewerage, water supply, heating and ventilation systems, electrical wiring, gas pipeline system);
- replacement of windows and doors;
- replacement or insulation and soundproofing of the attic;
- façade repair (dismantling old decoration and installation of a new one);
- renovation of bathrooms (replacement of plumbing and finishing);
- repair or ;
- room renovation.
Tools
To implement your plan, you will need a minimum set of tools:
- construction manual hammer drill (with hammer and drilling functions);
- Bulgarian;
- jigsaw;
- construction stapler;
- Screwdriver Set;
- hammer;
- chisel;
- pliers;
- wire cutters;
- metal scissors;
- hacksaws for wood and metal;
- building level;
- roulette;
- construction rope;
- plumb lines;
- carpenter's square;
- chalk and pencil for marking;
- Master OK;
- spatulas large, small and ribbed (for tiling);
- extension;
- ladder;
- possibly a shovel and a trough (for mixing plaster mortar);
- scaffolding.
The price of the listed tool is quite high, so we recommend renting it.
Drawing up a design project
Before that, you need to understand what result should be obtained after its completion. To do this, you can use a computer 3D visualizer program, with which you can easily select a pleasant view both inside and outside the house, having previously entered the plan and dimensions of the structure into the program.
You can choose the texture and color finishing materials, give the necessary shape to the facade, roof and stairs, provide accessories and even reproduce the courtyard.
Based on your favorite color range and the texture of each element of the exterior and interior, appropriate materials should be selected.
Calculation of necessary materials and tools, drawing up an estimate
The total number of materials required will be equal to the sum of the materials required to repair each individual component: room, bathrooms, roof and attic, facade, communication systems.
You should clearly measure the surface area (separately floor, walls and ceiling) of each room, and then calculate the required amount of finishing and auxiliary materials. It is also necessary to measure the length of pipes and wires that will be used to lay communications.
Advice! To the amount of materials obtained in the calculations should be added 5-10% allocated for repair waste.
Repair of communications
Repair of home communications systems is perhaps one of the few components of global home renovation that requires the intervention of professionals. The service life of each system will depend on how well the sewerage system, plumbing system, electrical wiring, heating and ventilation are repaired.
Moreover, the craftsmen will help you set up, for example, a heating system with minimal estimated heat losses, which will ultimately not only recoup the costs of calling them, but also subsequently save on energy use. Properly installed wiring can prevent short circuits and avoid failure of household appliances.
Replacement of windows and doors
If self installation doors seems to be a completely doable task, then PVC installation Windows instead of old ones should, if possible, be entrusted to specialists.
Both the measurement and the installation process itself metal-plastic windows requires experience and skill, because incorrect implementation of any of the listed works can lead to the fact that the window simply does not fit or its installation will require expansion (narrowing) of the window niche.
Correct installation of a window can not only extend its service life, but will also meet all modern requirements for sound and heat insulation.
Self-installation of doors:
- dismantled old door together with the frame;
- a new door frame is installed in the doorway (wooden using long dowels and screws, metal - wide metal pins driven into the walls and screwed or welded to the frame);
- then the gaps between the frame and the opening are blown in polyurethane foam and after drying they are plastered;
- The door is placed on hinges pre-lubricated with machine lubricant.
Replacement or repair of the roof, insulation and soundproofing of the attic
A major renovation of a private home is unthinkable without upgrading or repairing the roof and attic.
This material is durable, and the color and structural range of siding is ready to boast a wide variety (including can be made in the form of wood, natural stone, or brick covering). Such diversity will help bring the most original design idea to life.
In addition, additional insulation, for example, mineral wool, can be laid under the siding, thereby creating a so-called ventilated façade.
Siding installation:
- special metal brackets are mounted on the entire surface to be sheathed;
- mounted on brackets wooden beam section 50x80 mm or metal aluminum profile, thereby creating a sheathing;
- sheets are attached to the walls with long nails with a wide head mineral wool, treating the joints with polyurethane foam;
- On top, the insulation is covered with a special retaining membrane fabric, which prevents the insulation from blowing out of the cells and allows it to “breathe”;
- Siding panels are attached to the sheathing from bottom to top.
Advice! For maximum system efficiency, the gap between inside siding and insulation layer should be about 4 cm.
Renovation of bathrooms and kitchens
After completing the exterior work, you can begin finishing the interior..
Here the first things you need to do are more complex rooms such as bath, toilet and kitchen. Due to high humidity in these rooms, the floor is often covered ceramic tiles, having previously (if desired and possible) installed a “warm floor” system under the covering and covered it with a thin screed. Regarding the walls, there are slight differences:
- almost entirely made of tiles or more budget-friendly plastic panels;
- the toilet is sheathed almost the same way or, with rare exceptions, the upper part (about 2/5 of the wall height) can be covered with wallpaper;
- in the kitchen, tiles are usually laid on the walls, optionally near the work surfaces, the remaining parts of the walls are covered with wallpaper.
If you have enough funds, you can order for each of these premises suspended ceiling, which is a very practical and visually aesthetic option, however, you can cover it with PVC panels or simply paint the ceiling area.
The next step is the installation of plumbing, washbasin, furniture and other accessories.
Room renovation
After removing the old wallpaper in the rooms, uneven walls should be covered with putty and allowed to dry, after which you can glue new wallpaper. You can order a hanging system for the ceiling or cover it with wallpaper.
Depending on preferences, parquet, laminate, linoleum, and carpet are laid on the floors in the rooms. If the parquet has already been installed, it is sanded and varnished again. For the purpose of insulation, you can also install “warm floors” in the rooms.
Are you planning to renovate your home? Where to start, how to finish, how to carry out the work so that one does not interfere with the other and does not spoil it? First of all, it is necessary to draw up at least an approximate plan for all the work, and derive an estimate of costs. It should cover all planned activities, including dismantling old elements– batteries, window sills, switches.
A series is executed in parallel works related to drilling, chiselling, making recesses, grooves and boles. This also includes other work, during which it is necessary to “disfigure” the ceiling, walls and floor, resulting in the formation of a large number of various construction waste: dust, plaster fragments, etc.
When all this the garbage has been removed, you can begin to prepare the base for the floor.
There are different options:
- preparation for heated floor installation;
- installation from edged boards;
- leveling with concrete screed.
Home renovation sequence: activities with windows
The next stage of work concerns the windows. If necessary, they are replaced.
And on at this stage the prepared base is protected with film, cardboard or several layers of newspapers. This will greatly facilitate its subsequent cleaning and cleaning.
Even before moving to plastering work All proposed activities with drywall should be completed. Niches, additional partitions, functional and decorative details are completed before moving on to the next stage finishing works – "wet". It is advisable to complete all work of this kind within one work cycle, so as not to return to them again later.
The procedure for repairing a residential building: installing doors or flooring?
Then you can prevent errors when installing them, and also get a minimum gap between the floor plane or threshold and the door leaves.
This element, which has become familiar, enjoys steady popularity. The specific design of such ceilings allows their installation at the final stage of all activities, after wallpapering or painting wall surfaces. Installing a ceiling can be considered a finishing task that does not pose a threat to damage to the floor or wall covering.
The “top-down” ordering principle does not apply to this case. It applies mainly to the usual renovation work. The emergence of new technologies has brought some changes to their course. Even the installation crews suspended ceilings, offer to invite them to actually complete the repairs.
Let's try to make a short list of the priority of work in any single room of the house. So:
All specialists choose their own algorithm of actions, which is convenient for them in each specific case. But the approximate sequence of events may be exactly this.
This is how it looked before the renovation... Rotten wooden frames, covered on the outside with double film, from the cold and wind... On the left is an old veranda with a sagging porch canopy...
For those who are about to make repairs in their home, it seems...
These were the windows and window sills.
We started putting the house in order from the foundation.
We open the corners of the house one by one, remove the rotten crown logs using a chainsaw, install the formwork, lay large stones and crushed stone, lay the reinforcement so that its ends remain open (for subsequent fastening it to the poured foundation), wrap the crown log with roofing felt and fill it with concrete. There you have it. finished cabinet.
And so on all four corners of the house and its middle, around the perimeter. Total - 8 cabinets. The process is labor-intensive and difficult, but the result is worth it... When the cabinets were finished, we made a pile around the entire perimeter. The continuation of external work was postponed until next summer. We started renovating the house internally...
This a large room and let's start with it. This is what it looked like before the renovation:
This is her right corner... and this, in the photo below, is the left corner. In the process of writing the topic, I will stick to these two corners...
First, we completely tore off all the layers of old wallpaper. The windows were still old, but we were already waiting for specialists to install plastic windows.
The old stove was dismantled...and the stove maker put together a new one.
AND THE RESULT DID NOT KEEP MYSELF WAITING LONG...I decided to close one window completely and make one big one - there will be a dining room there.
After installing the windows, the men began to dismantle the old floor, level the joists and place brick cabinets under them...
Then they laid the floors with old boards (they will last for a very long time, since they are thick and dry), and in places where there were rotten ones, they replaced them with new boards.
I installed a metal profile frame for the walls and ceiling... my mistake was that first you need to do the ceiling, and then the walls, and not vice versa. I found the technique for performing this work on the Internet, I won’t go into detail on it. If you If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer what I know...
Attaching the frame to the ceiling is much more difficult, my neck hurts...
When the metal frame is completely ready, you can sew gypsum boards onto it, preferably in a checkerboard pattern, starting from the ceiling! Don’t forget to spread out the electrical wiring and hide it in the corrugated channel, behind the profile, and install the distributor boxes in a place convenient for you.
When all the walls and ceiling are covered with gypsum board, we putty with a putty knife and level all the joints between the sheets and the places where the screws are screwed in with this compound...
We lay reinforced mesh along the corners and seams to strengthen the joints, and after everything is dry, we sand it and apply a primer to the walls and ceiling.
And now the most interesting moment - wallpapering. I took white vinyl for the ceiling and with tender roses on the walls...
I invited a team of craftsmen to finish their work in this room on the windows (slopes and window sills).
After that, I glued the ceiling plinth, hung the shelves on the wall, put my flowers on the window sills, which the guys from the company had already installed for us...
The carpenter helped install the interior door, only later did I find out that it was upside down... (what difference does it make!) as long as it functions normally...
I pasted over the doorways with a white corner using liquid nails.
I laid underlayment on the subfloor, then fiberboard and linoleum. Then floor skirting boards I screwed it on with self-tapping screws and voila - beauty!!!
Here's the thing about this big room...
Some of you wanted to see more details about the concrete cabinets, so I added the details... So, the windows are installed, the house is sheathed on the outside flat slate and a pile was made around the house until next summer...
Now let's continue with exterior work, after the cold winter and spring...next summer.
When all the cabinets are ready, gradually, opening each side of the house from the rubble, we remove the rotten logs of the lower crown, wrap the dry ones with waterproofing,
we install the formwork, lay the reinforcement, connecting it to the ends of the reinforcement corner cabinets and fill it with concrete...
We make brickwork on the finished foundation...
Everyone works for us!!!
And as expected, a blind area was made... not quite ordinary...
That's all for exterior work and home renovation. If you have any questions, ask, I’ll be happy to know what I know, and I’ll answer. And for everyone who is interested, a continuation of the interior renovation - the dining room!
The repair cannot be completed, it can only be stopped temporarily. This is what they say about apartment renovations, but what if a private house or cottage needs to be renovated? After all, here, as a rule, everything is much more complicated. Firstly, there is more space here - on average, a cottage has a larger living area. Secondly, a private house has its own communications - heating from its own boiler, electrical installations done by yourself, as well as water, sewerage, etc. Thirdly, a cottage is not only an internal living space, there is also the outer part of the walls, roof, basements, etc. The age of the house and the materials from which it is built are also important.
If you finally decide to start and are planning to do the renovation of a private house with your own hands, then of course you hope that it will not turn into an endless one and will not suck all the money out of you. And for this you need to carefully plan repair and finishing work and take into account a number of features that we will discuss in this article.
So, you started a renovation. Where is the best place to start? If you have a specific breakdown or one specific room requires repairs, everything, of course, is extremely simple. We take it and repair it. But what if repairs need to be carried out everywhere? This is true, for example, when renovating an old house. Let's look at the most difficult case, that is, when you need to carry out major renovation. How to properly plan such work? These are the principles.
This is a fairly universal rule, suitable for almost any repair and finishing work. In practice this means the following.
- Firstly, you should begin to repair the upper rooms first, gradually descending below. Why? Yes, because renovation in general and cottage renovation in particular means a lot of garbage, and it will be much more convenient for you! The only exception is renovation basement. It’s almost like the second floor, only down underground, and for some reason much more dirt is generated when renovating the basement. So, if your basement needs renovation, it's best to schedule it as one of the first items.
- Secondly When renovating a specific room, first do work on the ceiling, then on the walls, and only then do the floor. The reason is simple - if you start painting the ceiling when the wallpaper is already hung and the floors are finished with parquet, you can simply get everything dirty. Imagine how annoying it would be if your new wallpaper was splattered with paint?
And finally, following the principle of “first the ceiling, then the walls and floor,” you need to bring the room to the same degree of readiness, and then move on to the next stage. For example, if you have bare walls in a room, then first you carry out all communications, make wiring, etc., then putty the ceiling, then the walls, then level the floors (fill, screed, etc.). That is, you get a room with a rough finish. And only after that do you move on to painting the ceiling, gluing wallpaper, laying flooring, and completing the finishing touches. Well, then – the decor and furnishings. The reasons are the same.
Second rule First, we repair communications, then the premises itself
As a rule, all household engineering Communication laid hidden. Electrical wiring, Internet and television cables are hidden under putty and wallpaper, laid in baseboards, and run to the lighting lamps under putty and ceiling paint. Heating pipes run through walls, and sometimes are also hidden in them. Warm floors - in the thickness of the floor, under screed and parquet. Imagine, you have already done repairs to the walls and ceiling, and suddenly you remember that you need to do the wiring. What, are you going to drill holes for installing electrical wiring in the newly finished walls, and then repair them again? Agree, this is not rational.
The third rule is to break down all repairs into stages.
The main thing is not to start renovating the cottage in all places at the same time. For example, first we select a specific room or floor, then the next part of the house, and so on. This is especially true if you live in this house and are doing renovations at the same time. Moreover, it is best to be the first to repair distant and hard-to-reach rooms - upper rooms, basements. If, sooner or later, you still have to repair the walk-through room, try to allocate an area in it where you can walk without the risk of getting dirty.
The fourth rule: First, we repair what is critically necessary for a normal life.
If there are problems with the plumbing, they need to be addressed first. If autumn is approaching and your roof is leaking, this is the most critical problem and it needs to be fixed urgently. If winter is coming, and your house doesn’t keep warm well, we urgently insulate it, and then do everything else.
Fifth rule Focus on the season
If you need to repair a private house both inside and outside, it would, of course, be more correct to carry out internal repairs in winter and in the off-season, and plan work on the facade for the warm season. This is especially important during repairs wooden house or houses made of other non-moisture resistant materials.
It is also important to consider when and what materials need to be delivered, where to store them (for example, you should not leave cinder blocks or boards outdoors in the winter, but keep flammable materials inside the house), think about who can help you in those stages of repair when You can't handle it physically alone.
For some, the need to renovate their apartment causes a reaction that is far from positive. It comes first financial side question. A painstaking calculation of funds begins, with a distinction between the purchase of materials and payment for the services of specialized construction teams.
Repairs may be cosmetic and limited to painting, wrapping and updating appearance. And it can be major with the replacement of electrical wiring, plumbing and installation of modern acrylic baths.
The process of renovating an apartment itself is perceived as a long period of time with many inconveniences. The result ultimately turns from desired to hard-won, and instead of a feeling of satisfaction, a feeling of fatigue and detachment arises.
The situation is completely different for people with imaginative thinking. Having visually imagined what the apartment will look like after finishing, they are easier to part with their money, in the hope of quickly seeing everything with their own eyes.
People from this same category, who are not burdened with funds, often resort to the services of designers. Master designer home interior with help computer programs can develop a 3D view of the apartment. In many ways, this method is considered a strong incentive to action, since it allows you to see the results of the work in advance.
However, people who are purposeful and have high inner enthusiasm never give up even in a situation where there is a severe limitation of funds. For such people, the way out is to carry out partial or complete repairs on their own.
Some people choose a thorough capital design of housing with redevelopment, while for others it is enough to carry out inexpensive repair in the apartment, which is more often called cosmetic.
Stages of repairs
When deciding where to start renovating an apartment, some people think that they first need to purchase materials and tools. In general, this is correct, but in order to spend money correctly and not buy too much, you need to do preliminary calculations. Calculate the basic geometric parameters of each room: height, length and width. Determine the sizes of window and door openings.
The data obtained will help determine the exact scope of work and calculate the amount of each type of building material.
When deciding to carry out global change internal view apartments on your own, you must first draw up a step-by-step plan. It is a properly developed plan, including a phased renovation of an apartment, that becomes the key to successful work processes.
The first step will be dismantling work:
- scrap fencing interior walls and partitions to expand space;
- dismantling wooden windows to replace them with plastic double-glazed windows;
- withdrawal door leaves or complete dismantling door frames.
- removal of old floor coverings;
- dismantling wall coverings or clearing walls of paint compounds;
- clearing or blurring ceilings.
Categories of complexity of work processes
The most labor-intensive work is considered to be screeding the floors and plastering the walls. It can be especially difficult to deal with surfaces with a large number of differences. Some of them can be eliminated by knocking them down with a hammer, but only a leveling screed or similar plaster layer can really save the situation.
To carry out high-quality straightening of wall surfaces, plaster beacons are used. To do this, buy aluminum slats or metal pipes of small square or rectangular cross-section.
In the first case, the material is inexpensive, but when purchasing, you should know that when you remove the slats from the seams after the plaster has dried, they can no longer be used again.
Metal pipes are more expensive, but the percentage of their preservation after dismantling is much higher. In addition, some people prefer to leave them in the solution for a stronger layer.
The most economical way to achieve evenness of the screed is considered to be the installation of mortar beacons on the floors. But this process is very painstaking and only those who have the appropriate skills can decide on it.
The simplest type of work is painting. At least that's what the majority thinks. The opinion is both right and wrong. The truth of the statement lies in carrying out the final process, that is, the painting itself, using quality tools.
Paint rollers and brushes, plastic trays with meshes for rolling rollers. Working with quality tools You can avoid smudges on the walls and the release of vertical paint stripes.
Capturing an impression
For the sake of interest and to confirm their personal participation, a large number of people take before and after photos of their apartment renovation. Sometimes this results in a whole series of photographs with separate initial and final views of each room.
Some amateurs post photos on the Internet because today it is considered a fashionable activity, while others simply use them to view with friends and acquaintances. In any case, a photo of an apartment renovation done with your own hands is not only a memory, but also a confirmation of personal skill.
Photo of apartment renovation with your own hands
